New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 635 
Bauer. Two varieties of the dewberry were received at this 
station for testing in 1890, from J. O. Bauer, Judsonia, Ark. Mr. 
Bauer says he is not introducing either of these varieties and neither 
of them has been named. They are too tender forthis locality, at 
least without winter protection. They have been killed nearly to 
the ground each winter since they were set and therefore have not 
fruited here. One has green bark, hairy and prickly, with char- 
acters of the southern dewberry, Rubus trivialis. The other is 
remarkable for its purple tinged foliage. Its young canes have 
many prickles and are densely covered with long, reddish purple 
hairs, not stiff enough to be called bristles. 

VARIETY TESTS OF RASPBERRIES. 
Sixty-six varieties of raspberries, fruited at this station in 1893, 
six of them for the first time. Of the former number seven are 
purple, nine are yellow (white), nineteen are black and thirty-one 
are red. It is thought best in this report to group the raspberries 
according to the color of their fruit, and to note the botanical 
classification in the text whenever it seems desirable. 
Raspberries are grown at this station on fertile, well-drained 
clay loam. The land slopes gently to the south. The plants 
have heretofore been cultivated in hills and given clean culture 
throughout the season. The old wood has been removed in the 
fall. Except when expressly otherwise stated the notes given 
below are based on the characters of the plants as observed at 
this station. The rank as to yield is given for each group separ- 
ately, that is to say, red berries are compared as to yield only 
with red berries, purple berries with purple berries, etc. 

Brack RaspBerrizs.— Nores on VARIETIES. 
Rubus Occidentalis, L. 
Ada. (From M. Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1888.) 
Fruit in 1893 was small, firm, of fair quality and nearly sweet. 
It ranked eleventh in productiveness. No other variety this year 
gave so large a per cent of its yield late in the season as did Ada 
